Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: critique pictures, not people
From: Guy Bennett <guybnt@idt.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 11:48:51 +0100
References: Your message of "Sat, 21 Oct 2000 17:42:03 PDT." <39F1D56B.2031.4E5590@localhost>

>[snip]
>My favorite typeface designer, Eric Gill, is often criticized for
>having lived an immoral life. So much so that there was an uproar in
>his native England about whether it was right to set the prayer book in
>Gill Sans. I find myself unable to care about his personal life when I
>set something in Perpetua or Golden Cockerel.
>[snip]

now, how about a bible set in peignot - chortle not ye of little faith! it
has been done, and you can see a page reproduced in rutlidge's 'type
designers.'

probably did more for atheism than the crusades.

hmm.

guy

In reply to: Message from "Roger Beamon" <roger@beamon.org> ([Leica] Re: critique pictures, not people)